Polish-Jewish Communities
Are Armed for Self-Defense

World Congress

Will Convene
In Switzerland

Government Permits Formation of Units fo Resist Anti-
50th Anniversary of First
Semitic Terrorists Who Keep Population in State of
Meeting to Be Marked
Constant Panic; Will Protect - Jews During Transfers
at 22d Session
WARSAW, (JTA)—The Polish Government granted
permission to Jewish communities throughout the country
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The
to •organize their own self-defense units for the purpose of 22nd World Zionist Congress
resisting anti-Semitic terrorism which is keeping the Jew- will be held in Basle, Switz-
ish population in a state of constant panic.
erland, it has been announced
Jewish self-defense units will be provided with arms in here. The Congress will com-
accordance with an understanding reached between - Jewish leaders memorate the 50th annivers-
and Polish Premier Eduard Osubka-Morawski. Public Security ary of the first World Zionist
Minister Stanislaw Radkiewicz suggested that the self-defense units
work under the supervision of local police authorities, but the Jew- Congress, which was also held
ish leaders pointed out that it was the local jolice officers who, in Basle.

under the pretext of "cooperation," took seventy guns from the
Jews in Kielce when they were besieged by terrorists, and that
these very same officers later participated in the pogrom.
The defense units will be organized by each of the local Jewish
committees affiliated with the Central Jewish Committee in War-
saw. They will consist of Jewish officers and soldiers who served
in the ranks of the Polish Army and Jews who fpught as partisans,
and will function under the central direction of the Warsaw Com-
mittee. The Polish Government will start supplying arms to these
units this week.
One of the functions of the Jewish military units will be to
transfer Jews from towns where they are exposed to danger to
neighboring cities with larger Jewish communities. The transfer
will be carried out under armed protection to assure that no at-
tacks will be made on the Jews while en route,

Polish Jews Will Be Transferred to U. S. ZOne
FRANKFULT, (JTA)—Rabbi Philip Bernstein, advisor on Jewish
affairs to U. S. military headquarters in Europe, left for Vienna to
discuss with Gen. Mark Clark, commander of the U. S. forces in
Austria, a number •of problems concerning the large number of
Jews currently entering the American zone in Austria fr6m Poland.
He will also discuss the question of transferring many of these
Jews from Austria to the U. S. zone in Germany and to Italy.
The question of transferring 25,000 displaced Jews from Austria
to Italy is now under consideration by the Italian Government.
Leon Kubowitski, secretary-general of the World Jewish Con-
gress, left for Munich to study the situation of the Jews in the
camps for displaced persons in Germany.

U.S to Bare
Proof of Axis
Aid by Mufti

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THE 'JEWISH e•IEWS

Friday, September 6; •94t;

Dr. Fritz Ullman, technical di-
rector of World Zionist Congress-
es for many years, has left for
Switzerland to arrange for the
forthcoming sessions.
It was estimated here that 2,-
500,000 shekolim entitling pur-
chasers to vote in the election of
delegates to the Congress already
have been sold by national Zion-
ist bodies, with half of them pur-
chased in the U. S.

750 Orphans Quit Poland
for Czechoslovakia

W • RSAW, (JTA)—Chief Rabbi
Isaac Herzog of Palestine flew to
Katowice to bless '30 Jewish or-
phans prior to their departure for
Czechoslovakia, where they will re-
main temporarily.
While in Warsaw, Rabbi Herzog
conferred with UNRRA Director-
General Fiorello H. LaGuardia on
the situation of Polish Jewry.

ZOA Supports Dr. Silver,
Rejects 'Extremism' Charge

Leader of American Zionists Given Vote of Confidence
in Repudiation of Paris Press Dispatches; Basic
Commonwealth Program Reaffirmed

NEW YORK.—The National Executive of the Zionist
Organization of America, at an all-night closed session, re- _
hewed its expression of confidence in the leadership of its
president, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, and characterized press
dispatches from Paris in his reported resignation from the
Jewish Agency Executive as "tendentious and harmful."

The resolution, referring to the<>
press dispatches emanating from
Program Reaffirmed
Paris in connection with Dr. Sil-
The resolution also reaffirmed
vers' reported resignation, rejects the official program of the Zion-
"the imputation conveyed that ist movement calling for the "free
Dr. Silver and the masses of Am- entry of Jews into Palestine and
erican Zionists whom he leads the establishment of Palestine as
represent an 'extremist' position
a Jewish Commonwealth with full
in contrast with the allegedly
`moderate' position of the Jewish equality of right and status for
all its inhabitants."
Agency Executive."
Unwarranted Suggestion
Jacques Torczyner, chairman of
The resolution also rejects the the ZOA Shekel and Election
"equally unwarranted suggestion Committee, reported the results
that he or we are motivated by of the recent elections of Ameri-
anti-British sentiment."
can delegates to the World Zion-.
The National Executive session ist, Congress which showed that
detailed
discus-
was devoted to a
the slate of the ZOA was substan-
sion of recent political develop- tially in the lead and that Dr.
ments and to receiving confiden- Silver thus will head the largest
tial reports of meetings of the delegation to the World Zionist
Jewish Agency Executive in Paris, Congress which is scheduled to
rendered by Dr. Israel Goldstein, convene in Switzerland in Novem-
former ZOA president, who just
ber. Other delegates will represent
returned from overseas.
Hadassah, Mizrachi, Revisionists
The meeting also heard a de-
tailed report on developments in and Labor Zionists.
The Palestine situation will be
Washington by Dr. Emanuel
Neumann • who introduced the discussed- at the ZOA convention
in Atlantic City, Oct. 25-29.
resolutions.

.

Documents of His Collabora-
tion Will Be Published,
Acheson Says

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Docu-
meats establishing collaboration
of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem with
the Axis are being translated by
the State Department and will
be published as part of a collec-
toin of material on the Axis.
Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, asked whether, in view
of the resumption of political act-
ivity by the Mufti, the Depart-
ment is considering publication
of the documents and receipts
which it has, and which establish
the Mufti's connect'ons with the
Axis, replied that all the Axis
documents, of which those relat-
ing to the Mufti are a part, are
being translated and will he pub-
lished.
The intention of the Depart-
ment is to release all the docu-
ments together, possibly in the
form of a White Book. But they
may be made public in install-
ments, Acheson said. He gave no
date of publication, but indicated
that the assembly of the material
involved considerable work.
Acheson said a number of
documents involve the Mufti, but
that he, Acheson, was too smart
to talk about documents he had
not read, The impression left,
from his answer, however, was
that the documents in the Depart-
ment's possession give evidence of
the Mufti's anti-Allied activities
during the war.

Palestine Censor Suppresses
U. S. Report on Documents
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Palestine censor has suppressed
the news from Washington that
the' State Department will publish
documents establishing the ex-
Mufti's collaboration with the
Axis. All other reports concerning
the ex-Mufti were similarly sup-
presSed,

360 New Visas Issued By U. S.
For Shanghai Refugee Rabbis
The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Com-
mittee, 132 Nassau St., New York,
announces that the State Depart-
ment has issued 360 visas to en-
able, regufee rabbis to come to the
U. S. from Shanghai, where they
have- been since 1941.

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